The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.

Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision.

If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Love is the universal language of heart.Feeling are the universal language of love.Smile is the universal language of charm.Attraction is the universal language of life.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

I still come out to music that's in Spanish. There's no denying who I am, but I've just made it to where my performance is so anybody can understand it - whether you're 10 years old or 80 years old.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.